From Falls Church-Refusing to accept as final the April 18 ruling of the Virginia Supreme Court denying their appeal, leaders of the breakaway congregation from the historic Falls Church Episcopal filed yet another appeal to the state’s Supreme Court last Friday.
The breakaway group, reconstituted as the Falls Church Anglican congregation under leadership of a Nigerian bishop, is seeking to reverse the January 2012 ruling of the Fairfax Circuit Court affirming that the campus of the historic church in downtown City of Falls Church is rightfully owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and its congregation of “continuing Episcopalians” in Falls Church.
The “continuing Episcopalian” congregation, made up of members of the historic church who did not follow the defectors out of the denomination in 2006, returned to the historic campus a year ago, based on the circuit court ruling, and last week held a service to welcome their new rector, the Rev. John Ohmer, in which Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia participated.
More here-
http://fcnp.com/2013/05/22/f-c-anglicans-file-petition-for-another-reconsideration-by-supreme-court/
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